England celebrate - they're slightly better than half as good as Australia
Okay, saying England is half as good as Australia is an exageration. After all, Australia only lost 6 wickets to England's 19. So mathematically, England were only slightly better than 30% of Australia's effort. Let's be generous and round it up to 33%. England are a third as good as Australia.
Still, I am gutted we didn't get the win. A 1-nil scorecard would've been a perfect result heading to Lords. It would've sucked the wind out of England, possibly broken their spirit like Adelaide did. But it was a thrilling finish, much like most of the 2005 Tests. So cricket was the winner. Pity it couldn't have been Australia as well. Some highlights for me:
- KP inventing new, incredibly stupid ways to get out. Ludicrous sweep shots, leaving straight balls. It doesn't get any better.
- All the Aussie batsmen bar Hussey scoring runs.
- The much maligned Nathan Hauritz (with me being one of the head cheerleaders of the boot sinking) outspinning the two English spinners who took one wicket between them.
- England fielding for 3 days and over-bowling Andrew Flintoff yet again.
- Australia dominating nearly every aspect of the Test apart from a few bad sessions (one of which was rained out).
The lowlights:
- The result, of course. I stayed up right till the last delivery hoping and expecting to see an Australian victory. The crowd roaring with every dot ball was really setting my teeth on edge by the end.
- Ponting's negative captaincy and Australia's toothless bowling in the middle session of day 1.
- Mitchell Johnson's attack of the yips in the last session of Day 5. This was the moment when our spearhead needed to step up and win the match for us like he did in South Africa or when he bowled Graeme Smith in the penultimate over in Sydney. Instead Mitch could barely land the ball on the pitch. Ponting should've taken him off several overs earlier.
- Nathan Hauritz sealing his Test spot for at least several more Tests.
- Ponting bringing on the feckless Marcus North in the dying minutes of the Test.
Back to back Tests are tough. I'm not talking about the players. I'm talking about me recovering from the sleep deprivation in just a few days before having to enter the twilight zone again. I've got three days to catch up on my sleep, one of which is State of Origin night, then it begins again at Lords on Thursday night. Still, looking forward to what crazy spectacle the Ashes will deliver this time around.
| Posted by JC on Mon 13 Jul |  62 comments |
I was closely watching the match on cricjoy.com and all of a sudden the score stucked on 252/9 and i thought rain interuppted the match but in some time i realized that test ended in a draw.I think Eng was little lucky. Thnaks to some brilliant batting by Collingwood. The way he guided his team to a safe draw was something english openers should learn. But anyway it was the cricket that turned out to be a true winner. Every lover wants close matches like this.
Posted by sahirusman on 2009-07-13 17:11:08
Posted by sahirusman on 2009-07-13 17:11:08
Virtualgaz Match Summary:
While Australia should have won, and can feel aggrieved by the ¾ day lost to rain (well, it was Wales), the draw came about because the Poms relinquished so many wickets. Out of the 19 English wickets that fell I’d say only 8 or 9 were ‘taken’. Ponting (and therefore Australia) is an ineffective captain without his legends and Strauss is hamstrung by the roll-over-and-die mentality which has plagued English sporting achievements since 1966.
All that stuff about Panesar being useless is BS – he’s got a good technique and is savvy enough to know what to leave. He’d bat at 8 in a 70’d side!
Roll on Thursday!
Posted by virtualgaz on 2009-07-13 18:53:43
While Australia should have won, and can feel aggrieved by the ¾ day lost to rain (well, it was Wales), the draw came about because the Poms relinquished so many wickets. Out of the 19 English wickets that fell I’d say only 8 or 9 were ‘taken’. Ponting (and therefore Australia) is an ineffective captain without his legends and Strauss is hamstrung by the roll-over-and-die mentality which has plagued English sporting achievements since 1966.
All that stuff about Panesar being useless is BS – he’s got a good technique and is savvy enough to know what to leave. He’d bat at 8 in a 70’d side!
Roll on Thursday!
Posted by virtualgaz on 2009-07-13 18:53:43
Another low light I forgot to mention in the original post: Henry Blofeld commentating in the dying moments of the match during the most excited passage of play. His upper class, toffee voice is already enough of an earsore. Listening to him gushing excitedly would have to rate as the most painful sound in world sport - even worse than listening to a Darren Lockyer interview after a State of Origin game.
Posted by JC on 2009-07-13 20:54:30
Posted by JC on 2009-07-13 20:54:30
I was definetely dissapointed for Johnsons performance on the last day. Especially as i am a bit of a fan of his. But, I was really peeved with Ponts for persisting with him for what seemed an eternity. Maybe, it was just because it was late in the night but there was one point when i thought Hilfy and Siddle must of both been of the field injured.
The whole bowling/fielding choices of the 2nd half of the day really seemed to lack the intensity that the situation deserved. It was like Ponting had just decided to let England get themselves out!
Hmm. I suppose the English did a good job of that during the first half of their innings. Maybe he thought they were more qualified for the job than the Aussies.
Posted by Trent Lane on 2009-07-13 21:57:37
The whole bowling/fielding choices of the 2nd half of the day really seemed to lack the intensity that the situation deserved. It was like Ponting had just decided to let England get themselves out!
Hmm. I suppose the English did a good job of that during the first half of their innings. Maybe he thought they were more qualified for the job than the Aussies.
Posted by Trent Lane on 2009-07-13 21:57:37
It's true that Panesar has improved his technique, but he's still very much a number 11. That innings was a bit of a fluke and there is no excuse for not getting him out in 40 minutes. Other than that I didn't think Ponting did an awful lot wrong - it seems he can't win. Quite often in the match Johnson was bowling waywardly but he left him on an extra couple of overs and he got a wicket. He's always capable of that magic ball, so I can see why Ponting persevered with him. North was slightly mystifying though I suppose. Ponting doesn't seem to get too much credit for the things he did right - his declaration was good. Strauss would have waited til about halfway through the morning session of day 5. Ponting won the first captaincy battle.
Posted by rich on 2009-07-15 23:28:04
Posted by rich on 2009-07-15 23:28:04
I thought the declaration was a no-brainer. It's not like he was risking losing the game. We still had an entire innings up our sleeve. If anything, he could have declared earlier with completely no risk whatsoever.
Posted by JC on 2009-07-16 10:05:49
Posted by JC on 2009-07-16 10:05:49
Ponting's bowling choices really kill me sometimes. I can name at least 3 Tests he's thrown away because of his choice of bowlers! It's like he's waiting for some miracle over from a part timer a la Michael Clarke in the Sydney Test against India.
Couldn't help wishing for a Brett Lee or a Stuart Clark - or even Hilfenhaus - in the last few overs though!
Posted by MT on 2009-07-16 16:26:06
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